Quick MOT Question

[veeeffarr]

If I take my bike for an MOT, and it passes, can I ride to a Post Office to tax it?

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[Mr.Everready]

no
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[Mr.Everready]

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[carvell]

Legally, No.
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[map]

Officially you can ride to a pre-booked MOT and therefore the assumption is you can ride it home. Route is supposed to be direct. So, assuming a post office is on your route home
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[st3v3]

I was told(whilst growing up) you can ride it there, if it fails, ride it home. If it passes, go to nearest post office(not on bike unless ya passing) and get ya tax disc, but you can't legally ride it home if it passes.(can't find a link sorry) but who will know... cept you.
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[Ariel Badger]

You worry about taking a slightly diverse route home from the MOT shop.
Most people on here do not worry about riding at double the speed limit.
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[RI_HA]

Does it really make that much of a difference to be honest Toby? Im sure ive read that you have 3 points on your licsense due to speeding? but your worried about riding to the post office..

If the worst happens, simply explain that you were going to the post office to tax your vehicle and you have just left the MOT station, Im sure no one will really mind or bat an eyelid about it to be fair.

[veeeffarr]

[RI_HA]

[map]

If you're bothered after it passes ride it straight home. Ask when the computer MOT will be uploaded, sometimes it's a few hours, usually it's next day. Then just get the tax online (search on here or google for the link, something like https://www.dvla.gov.uk, or click here) and then if stopped it's in the post.

HTH
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[stinkwheel]

In the highly unlikely event that you are stopped, you'll be able to show the copper your shiny new MOT certificate and tell him you're on the way to the post office to tax it.

The coppers don't give a shite about tax these days anyway, the all-seeing DVLA computer takes care of that.

If you were to be done by an ANPR camera, it doesn't matter because you'll have a valid tax disc for that day to wave in their face anyway. Pretty sure the camera can't tell if you are on the way back having just bought one ten minutes previously.
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[veeeffarr]

[Finglonga]

[MattEMulsion]

[veeeffarr]

[Kal]

I've taken cars halfway across the country and back - legally - to get MoTs. (Actually the cars needed to move halfway across the Country and didn't have valid MoT's so tests near the destination were booked for them)


There is no requirement in the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 for the MoT station to be the closest one to the vehicles place of residence or for the route from/to the MoT station to be the most direct.

So yes, if you have your MoT and want to get a Tax Disc that day there is nothing wrong with you stopping on your way home and purchasing one.

While it may not be within the spirit of the law it is certainly within the letter of the law.

[MattEMulsion]

[Kal]

Not really. The MoT station was in the City I grew up in and was a Mechanic I could trust. It was done in one trip to a prebooked appointment, not a problem in the world.

As I said it is down to the letter of the law rather than the spirit of the law and so a technicality but the law works on the letter of the law not the spirit of it.

Last year we had to get my partners car to Autoglass in Nottingham and back to Leicester again after it failed its MoT on the windscreen. The only place I could get it booked into for an appointment the next day was Autoglass in Nottingham. Not a problem in world - completely legal.

An overnight break in a journey could be argued to make it two journeys rather than one if you get me. Which would make the second leg illegal.
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[Graham88]

I accidentally got lost on my way home from the MOT station, so I went into the Post Office to ask for directions.

[LUXY DJ]

just do it!

you aint gonna get pulled (unless riding dodgy) & in VERY UNLIKELY event you do im sure they will understand if not then you would have to put it down to the unluckist day of your LIFE!

5/0 pull you then 5/0 do you aswell even tho you showed them fresh MOT paper & on way to tax it.............. NO WAY your fine!!!

just go

or worse case scenerio...LEG IT FROM
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[edd]

[Kal]

None of the amendments to VERA in the last thirteen years have changed the wording to the section quoted above, so there is no location or locality requirement for the MoT station you are attending, just that you are booked in for an MoT before you start your journey or returning from one.

Personally I have done it with several cars and the Trike. What I have done is print off schedule two of VERA 1994 to show any Police Officers should I be stopped.

Actually the trike is a good example of why there is no legislation on where you should go for an MoT as most stations cannot/willnot test it and I have to travel some distance.

The only thing you need to be aware of is if your vehicle is defective in steering, braking or structually etc then the Police can say it is not fit to be on the road.

If you don't want to take the Bike North and it needs MoT/work you aren't happy to do etc then I can recomend Lesters Motorcycles on Beatrice Road. I've been going there for a while.

Alternatively, now I've seen just how often you post in the workshop forum, if you just need somewhere out of the road to work for a day then me or my partner are usually in and can be relied upon to make at least the occasional cup of tea.
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[edd]

Thats a very kind offer mate. Im actually back home now and I got the bike through MOT, working on it outside my halls. I went to centre garage, on Gwendolen road for the MOT. They seemed to be OK, not as leanient as the station I use back home, but at least I got an MOT test actually done rather than the bike parked up round the back for half an hour while they print a pass cert off. It failed the first time on too much play in the rear shock linkages, some strips of fosters cans in the bushes and it was passed the following day.
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